Quotable:
"We don't want to cut public education, so we're going to have to go to superintendents of schools and say: 'Listen, you've got to find us some administrators, some bureaucrats, some public relations people that we can cut, because we're not going to furlough teachers."
-Thomas V. Mike Miller, Maryland Senate President
Baltimore Sun: School superintendents balk at Miller's suggestion of administration cuts
Notable
57%:
Percentage of students, out of a total of 79,000, who passed an early version of Texas's new end-of-course Algebra I test.
Dallas Morning News: Texas students struggle on early versions of end-of-course tests